Is a pregnant, diabetic mother most likely to have a heart-sick child?

Researchers at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg have found that people whose mothers had gestational diabetes were 50 to 200 percent more likely to develop heart disease before they were 35 years old than those who were not exposed to intrauterine diabetes, according to the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

“ These observations support our hypothesis that the development of cardiovascular disease in adolescence and young adulthood is associated with maternal diabetes, ” underlined Jonathan McGavock, an associate professor at the University of Manitoba Research Institute at the University of Manitoba.

Specialists analyzed data from more than 290,000 children born to nearly 190,000 mothers who were born between 1979 and 2005 in the Manitoba province of southern central Canada.

2.8 percent of the children were exposed to gestational diabetes (gestational diabetes) and 1.1 percent of them had a mother who had type 2 diabetes before pregnancy.

The incidence of exposure to the two diabetics involved increased during the study, and the trend was observed in other parts of the world.

Among young people exposed to maternal diabetes, the three most common diagnoses were hypertension (8713 people), type 2 diabetes (3568 people), and ischemic heart disease (715 people).

“ Analyzing data from almost all children born in Manitoba over the age of 30, we found that children whose mothers were diabetic at the time of pregnancy were 30 to 80 percent more likely to have a heart problem and were 2-3.4 times more likely to develop who are at risk for some heart disease, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, than those whose mothers did not have diabetes during pregnancy, ”McGavock pointed out.

Researchers say their findings may contribute to preventive health measures.

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